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The playing and making of the Uilleann pipes was incorporated into the Representative list of the UNESCO Convention of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2017. This experience was performed in collaboration with several Uillean pipe players who contributed at every stage of the performance recording with comments and orientation. Some of these comments were also later formally kept as interviews to the players. The technical capture of the movements was done using a Rokoko Smart suit and paired Smart gloves which the piper wears for the performance. The resulting motion file was then cleaned and redirected to Blender 3D, a community made software package that allows the incorporation of a renderable avatar that helps for the dissemination of the performance. This recording process, called Inertial system, allows performers to perform almost anywhere and to capture the movements of the players with good accuracy. This process of recording and collaboration with the community is a cost-effective solution that can be of particular interest for scholars as well as for cultural communities wishing to archive these practices quickly. This design of technology and collaborative recording allows for a round experience that combined the detail of the technically enhanced recording with the interpretive nuance of the player that enriches the capturing process with mentions to how it is \u2018relatively\u2019 comfortable for the player and how efficient it is in terms of resulting detail. This collaboratively designed experience also provides the three aspects of intangible heritage preservation: supports the community -who can learn from the resulting animation; helps situating the practice within the cultural practice of the community-as they are part of the process; and helps materialise the output permitting its digital cataloguing, archival, and storage.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/mti6110097","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,8]],"date-time":"2022-11-08T13:17:43Z","timestamp":1667913463000},"page":"97","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Collaborative Design in Kinetic Performance: Safeguarding the Uilleann Pipes through Inertial Motion Capture"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"6","author":[{"given":"Philip I.","family":"Morris","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Media Arts and Communication, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield S1 1WB, UK"}]},{"given":"Joan Ramon","family":"Rodriguez-Amat","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Media Arts and Communication, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield S1 1WB, UK"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"48","article-title":"A Short History of the Uilleann Pipes","volume":"26","author":"Moylan","year":"2018","journal-title":"History Irel."},{"key":"ref_2","first-page":"1","article-title":"Motion2fusion: Real-time volumetric performance capture","volume":"36","author":"Davidson","year":"2017","journal-title":"ACM Trans. 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